Reversible wrap-around skirt



Nov. 17, 1959 H. GREENBLATT 2,912,698

REVERSIBLE WRAP-AROUND SKIRT Filed April 11, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Nov. 17, 1959 H. GREENBLATT 2,912,698

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Filed April 11,1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR BYW ATTORNEY United States Patent I REVERSIBLE WRAP-AROUND SKIRT Hyman Greenblatt, Newton Highlands, Mass. Application April 11, 1958, Serial No. 727,945 1 Claim. (Cl. 2-211) This invention relates to reversible wrap-around skirt which can be easily positioned on the body by the wearer to display either one of its faces, which keeps its original size and style irrespective of the face displayed, and which does not require any fastening means on or attached to its body portion.

Presently known and used reversible skirts, especially those designated as sportswear, all require a fastening means at the waistband together with an additional fastening means for holding the panelled body portion of the skirt in position, and such additional fastening means have included a vertically positioned row of buttons and accompanying buttonholes along the meeting edges of the displayed face or a reversible zipper operable from the face displayed. In all cases, it has been found difficult to maintain constant the size and style of the skirt in reversing it. The result has been that such a skirt has been worn merely to serve as an additional garment over a pair of shorts and has been allowed to be worn in a flap-open manner at the so-called meeting edges of the displayed face of the skirt. Also, the use of reversible wrap-around skirts has been limited for the reason that simple and easily maneuverable fastening means in combination with such skirts have not been known.

The reversible wrap-around skirt of this invention is so constructed that it will at all times keep its original size and style and will not be bulky in any portion thereof particularly with respect to its fastening means. The skirt includes a body portion of two opposite face portions each of which may be of different designs or of different colors and which may be selectively displayed, and a waistband attached thereto. This waistband likewise may be of the same different designs or different colors and is attached to the body portion. Each face portion is preferably made up of a plurality of gores or panels and includes two side end gores or panels adapted to be positioned, in part at least, over one another by the wearer in positioning the skirt in wearing position. The waistband has two end edges and two pair of spaced apart buttonholes or openings therethrough, and the distance between the openings or buttonholes of one pair is substantially equal to the distance between the openings or buttonholes of the other pair. 'In positioning the skirt in wearing position, the wearer need only select the face to be displayed, position the skirt by merely wrapping it about the body so that one side end gore or panel of one face falls over the other side end gore or panel and one pair of buttonholes coincides with the other pair of buttonholes. The so positioned skirt then can be held in place by positioning through each of the coinciding buttonholes a fastening means such as a double-headed linked button. There is not created any bulky portion in the so-positioned skirt particularly at the fastening and holding points, and the left hand side end panel or gore of the face displayed can be positioned over the right hand side end panel or gore of said face ice or the right hand side end panel or gore of said face can be positioned over the left hand side end panel or gore of said face, depending upon the desire of the wearer. It is stressed that, at all times and irrespective of the face displayed, the skirt will be maintained constant as to its original size and style.

An object of this invention is to provide a reversible wrap-around skiit which can be easily positioned on the body by the wearer and which keeps its original size and style irrespective of the face displayed.

Another object of this invention is to provide a reversible wrap-around skirt which is easily and economically constructed and which is devoid of any bulky fastening means for holding it in wearing position.

Other objects and features will become readily apparent from the following detailed description which is illustrative of the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of my reversible wrap-around skirt showing one face of said garment.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of my reversible wrap-around skirt showing the other face of said garment.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of my reversible wraparound skirt showing it in wearing position on the body of the wearer.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line 44 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on line 5--5 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a sectional view on line 6-6 of Figure 3.

Figure 7 is a sectional view on line 7-7 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a sectional view on line 8-8 of Figure 1.

Figure 9 is a sectional view on line 99 of Figure 1.

Figure 10 is a sectional view on line 10-10 of Figure 3.

Figure 11 is a perspective view of a double-headed linked button fastening means.

Figures 12a and 12b, making up Figure 12, are plan elevational views of the skirt panels or gores during the assembly thereof.

Figure 13 is a sectional view on line 1313 of Figure 1.

The skirt 2 is formed of two face portions 4 and 6 which together form the body portion 8 of the skirt. The face portions are preferably of different materials, and face portion 4 here is shown to be a solid color while face portion 6 is shown to consist of a flower design material.

Each of the face portions 4 and 6 are made in like manner. A plurality of panels or gores are cut and then sewn together. For example, panel or gore 10 of face portion 4 is cut to the desired shape and is positioned with its display side against the display side of the cut panel or gore 12 and stitched to form the seam 16, as clearly shown in Figure 12a. The so-attached panel or gore 10 is then turned outwardly away from panel or gore 12 in the direction of arrows AA to expose the display faces of said panels 10 and 12, as clearly shown in Figure 12b. All panels or gores of each face portion are so attached or sewn together, and each seam and panel assembly appear as clearly shown in Figure 7. The face portion 4 and face portion 6 thereby result after having been so-formed, face 4 consisting of panels or gores 10, 12, and 14, and face 6 consisting of panels or gores 18, 20, and 22. Face portion 4 is then positioned with its display side against the display side of face portion 6 and sewn or seamed adjacent to the respective bottom edges 26 and 28 to form seam 30, adjacent to the respective side edges 32 and 34, to form seam 36, and adjacent to the respective side edges 38 and 40 to form seam 42. The body portion 8 thereby formed is then turned inside out to display the display surfaces of the face portions 4 and 6, panel or gore 10 being opposite to panel or gore 18, panel or gore 12 being opposite t9 panel 20, and panel 14- being opposite to panel 22, with the seams 30, 36, and 42 being what is commonly referred to as hidden or not showing. Further, prior to the respective panels or gores of face portion 4 and of face portion 6 being assembled as heretofore described or subsequent to the respective panels or gores of each face portion being assembled, but preferably prior, in any event, to the assembling of the face portions 4 and 6 to form the body portion 8, the pleats 44 are formed by forming the respective materials of face portions 4 and 6, as shown clearly in Figure 9, and then stitching or sewing for the length of the respective seams 50, as shown clearly in Figures l, 2, and 3, from the respective top edge portions and 48 of face portions 4 and 6 for the height or distance of said pleats, which are usually terminated within the hip portion of the skirt as shown, that is, approximately 4 to inches from said top edges 46 and 48.

As is now clear from the foregoing description, I have, to this point, formed the body portion 8 of my skirt. The body portion 8 now remains open at the top edges 46 and 4 The waistband 52 is formed of face portion 54 and face portion 56, the former preferably being of the material used for face portion 4 and the latter preferably being of the material used for face portion 6. As was done teretofore in the assembly of the body portion 8, the display side of 54 is positioned against the display side of 5'6 and sewn or stitched to form seam 58 extending from its beginning point 60 at the bottom point of edge 6t; to its end point 66, at the bottom point of edge 72, to enclose the waistband 52 at three sides to form edges 68, 70, and 72 of the waistband 52-, thus leaving the bottom of the waistband open to receive thereafter the top edges 46 and 48 of faces 4 and 6, as clearly shown in Figure Openings or buttonholes 74, 76, 78, and 80 are then formed in the usual manner through waistband 52. The distance between 74 and 76 is equal to the distance between 75 and 80, from any like portion of one buttonhole to the like or similar portion of the other buttonhole, viz. from center-line to center-line, each buttonhole being preferably of like size, in accordance with good manufacturing practice so known in this art. Thusly are formed at least two pair of openings or buttonholes through the waistband 52. Each of the face portions 4 and 6 now include two side end portions or panels or gores, here shown as 10 and 14 of 4 and 18 and 22 of 6. As heretofore set forth, 10 of 4 is opposite to 18 of 6 and 14 of 4 is opposite to 22 of 6. The body portion 8 consisting of face portions 4 and 6 is now positioned in such a manner that the top edges 26 and 48 of 4- and 6 are between 54 and 56 of waistband 52, and the bottom edges 32 and 34 of 54 and 56 are inwardly and upwardly turned, as clearly shown in Figure 4. All four edges 82-, 46, 48, and 34 are now positioned between faces 54 and 56 of waistband 52. A seam 86 is now formed by stitching or sewing to form a skirt 2, as clearly shown. Preferably the distance between each of the buttonholes or openings of each pair is approximately one-quarter of the length of the edge 70 0f waistband 52. The widths X and Y of panels 10 and 1 -1 and of the oppositely positioned panels 18 and 22 are preferably one-quarter or approximately one-quarter, more or less, of the total length Z of the top portion of the face 4 or the face 6 of skirt 2, and the distance between openings 74 and 76 and between 78 and 80 are preferably approximately one-quarter of said length Z, more or less, here for pur poses of preferred embodiment slightly less than the distances X and Y. However, it is preferred that the distance between the openings of each pair be such that said pair falls within the distance X or Y and over the respective scale end panel. Each of the end openings 4t 74 and is spaced from the respective ends 68 and 72, as shown.

The skirt 2 is so styled and sized that in the wearing the skirt 2 will be so positioned that buttonhole 74 coincides with buttonhole 7 8 and that buttonhole 76 coincides with buttonhole 80 no matter what the face displayed be. For example, as clearly shown in Figures 3, 6, and 10, wherein is shown face 4 displayed, panel or gore 10 overlaps panel or gore 14 and the heretofore described openings of each pair coincide as set forth. As is clearly evident, panel 14 can be so positioned to overlap panel 10, and in displaying face 6, corresponding panels may overlap similarly to those of face 4.

As shown clearly in Figure 11, the double-headed linked button consists of head 92 and 94 joined by link member 96 as shown clearly. Because of the very nature of the button construction the said button is considered to be flexible and easily positioned through each of said coinciding buttonholes or openings heretofore described. The head portions 92 and 94 are preferably of colored plastic materials such as colored polyester resins readily available and known in the art. The buttons are so constructed that they can be loosely positioned in one of the buttonholes at all times. Because they are so constructed, the buttons can be easily used to hold the skirt in position on the wearer, as clearly shown in Figures 3 and 10. Also, as is clearly evident, there are no bulky portions formed and there is complete and easy maneuverability.

Many alterations and changes can be made Without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention which is set forth in the appended claim which is to be construed as broadly as possible in view of the prior art.

I claim:

A reversible wrap-around two-ply skirt comprising a body portion composed of a main section and a pair of overlapping end sections and a waistband, said body portion being generally rectangular and having an arcuate top edge and an arcuate bottom edge and side edges diverging from top to bottom, said waistband being secured to said top edge and being coextensive in length with the said top edge, said waistband having two pair of spaced apart buttonholes therethrough in the overlapping end sections thereof, the distance between the buttonholes of one pair being substantially equal to the distance between the buttonholes of the other pair, one buttonhole of one pair being positioned near one end edge of said waistband and one buttonhole of the other pair being positioned near the other end edge of said waistband, whereby a side end portion of the skirt can be superposed upon the other to form overlapping portions thereby causing the buttonholes of one pair of buttonholes to coincide with the buttonholes of the other pair of buttonholes to enable the use of a double-headed linked button through each two coinciding buttonholes for fastening the skirt in position on the wearer, the overlapping portions being provided with a shaping means extending from said waistband dominantly over the end sections of the skirt.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 365,841 Meltzer July 5, 1887 723,191 Adler Mar. 17, 1903 1,038,821 Baldwin Sept. 17, 1912 1,141,284 Stone June 1, 1915 2,066,324 Berman Jan. 5, 1937 2,515,089 Kamhi July 11, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,111,488 France Oct. 26, 1955 

